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Installing FEniCS locally

+2 votes

Hi!

Which is the best way to install FEniCS in a server that I don't have sudo permissions?

Thank you!

asked Jan 19, 2015 by amigoricardo FEniCS Novice (340 points)

1 Answer

+1 vote

Try the fenics-install script:

wget -O - http://fenicsproject.org/fenics-install.sh | bash

If you run into problems, please send us a report on the fenics-support mailing list.

answered Jan 19, 2015 by johannr FEniCS Expert (17,350 points)

I've used the script, however I got error

--2016-03-02 10:43:54-- http://fenicsproject.org/fenics-install.sh
Resolviendo fenicsproject.org... 82.118.24.73
Connecting to fenicsproject.org|82.118.24.73|:80... conectado.
Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK
Longitud: 8360 (8,2K) [text/x-sh]
Saving to: `STDOUT'

100%[=================================================================================================================>] 8.360 --.-K/s in 0,001s

2016-03-02 10:43:54 (8,92 MB/s) - written to stdout [8360/8360]

Created temporary directory /tmp/fenics-install.rEMXN1 for FEniCS installation.

Downloading HashDist...
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/fenics-install.rEMXN1/hashdist/.git/
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden while accessing https://github.com/hashdist/hashdist.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

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